Hebrews 9:1

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.

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Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

In Context

2For a tabernacle was prepared. The first room, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the presence, was called the holy place.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:8Let them make me a sanctuary so that I may live among them.

Leviticus 18:30Therefore you must keep my command not to practice any of these detestable customs which were practiced here before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am Yahweh your God.'”

Numbers 9:12They must not leave any of it until the morning, or break any of its bones. They must follow all the regulations for the Passover.

Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, obeying all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Hebrews 8:2He is a servant in the holy place, the true tabernacle that the Lord, not a man, set up.

Hebrews 8:13By calling this covenant “new,” he declared the first covenant to be old, and what has become old and obsolete will soon disappear.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 9:1

The apostle, having declared the Old-Testament dispensation antiquated and vanishing away, proceeds to let the Hebrews see the correspondence there was between the Old Testament and the New; and that whatever was excellent in the Old was typical and representative of the New, which therefore must as far excel the Old as the substance does the shadow. The Old Testament was never intended to be rested in, but to prepare for the institutions of the gospel. And here he treats, I. Of the tabernacle, the place of… Read the whole commentary →

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